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April 12: Yuri Kochiyama Impact Award honors the Reverend Deborah Lee (video)

“Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus is grateful for Rev. Lee’s partnership over the years. We honor Rev. Lee for her visionary leadership and commitment to bridging faith with immigrant rights, and mobilizing faith leaders to stand with immigrant communities in a time of heightened xenophobia.”

2019 Yuri Kochiyama Impact Honoree Rev. Deborah Lee has dedicated her life to faith and social justice. As Executive…

Posted by Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus on Tuesday, April 16, 2019

 

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Apr 11 media article: “White House urged ICE to release detainees in SF, other Democratic strongholds” (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Rev. Deborah Lee, executive director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity in Oakland and an immigrant rights leader, said Thursday evening that a proposal to “use people as political pawns is really loathsome.”

“But anything that would support getting people out of immigration detention and back into communities and into livable and humane situations — we would actually encourage that,” Lee said. “We would welcome their release, and we would welcome them here.”

Read the full San Francisco Chronicle article here.

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April 12, San Francisco: Passover Prayer Vigil by Congregation Beth El

Interfaith Immigration Vigil
“Compassion Has No Walls”
Passover Prayer Vigil by Congregation Beth El

This Friday April 12, 2019
11:30 am -12:30 pm
630 Sansome St. San Francisco
10 minute walk from Embarcadero BART and close to Montgomery BART too.

Join us as Congregation Beth El of Berkeley leads us with ritual and songs that reflect on the Jewish festival of Passover,a holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and our contemporary context where so many people in the world are refugees and migrants fleeing from violence, traveling vast distances and being denied entry.

Other speakers include:
Lewis Cohen of the National Center for Youth Law who will give an update about the sickening situation of immigrant children in detention centers. Their firm currently represents the class of over 10,000 immigrant children in federal custody, including children separated from their families

Also testimony from the Root Causes Pilgrimage to Honduras